From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) Subject: Re: Appletalk anyone? / networking Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 00:46:49 GMT
In article <1993Feb22.181750.22679@wuecl.wustl.edu> ask1@cec2.wustl.edu (Andrew Scott Koransky) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone is working on implementing Appletalk for linux
>OR if anyone knows of an AppleTalk package w/source for *nix.
I believe the (semi-)standard AppleTalk package for *nix is CAP,
which should be available in source form by FTP from rutgers.edu. It
supports AppleShare file servers and printing servers (in both
directions--lpr to an AppleTalk printer and Mac printing to a *nix
printer), at least, through EtherTalk (AppleTalk over ethernet) or
Kinetics box routing. It doesn't support LocalTalk or PhoneNet cards
in your machine, as far as I know, though that should only need
changes to the hardware addressing; the protocols are probably the
same as for EtherTalk.
I don't know how cleanly it ports to Linux, but it runs on both BSD
and SYSV machines, so it can't do anything too disgustingly
nonportable.
If you achieve any success, let us know...